


\5 



' 



* °- /.•*•• \ /■• * A&S.-X ,'" .-Jab- "- /i 

' 'SIS' ** ** '" * * sf-'- u ^ -mid" \ # * v ^fe" i 

?••/ v^Sy V^\/ ^-^/ \'-- > h %"1 



» o 

VI. ^ ^^ 



O > 



.*'* 



,* V 






-C 4 



VT % A <,'».." ,G V 

A V, ^ o *.,,- .0 v •...» ^ o ».,,. .0 V « 

■Jr. •, **U />.* v ^ra2?>k," «>> *^n at v jf^^fc' cd 





A ^ » 




«*° 






<V A^ " ', 



°o 



o > 



^ r* - c v ° a^ - 1 -^ , u .*^n<* ° 






A 



,4 






•^ 










" • . *»b ^ • 

o > 




vP'i 

.4> .... <«>. n^ . 




^ v V 










«k 



J. -^ °<* 









/ 













A .... '■* 



A 1 

.1* 



V 



.0 O 



% 






F 

r^ 7 




uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 





THE INDUSTRIAL CENTLR 
OF THE OHIO VALLEY 





STEUBENVILLE'S ILLUSTRIOUS SON 

EDWIN M. STANTON 

War Secretary to President Lincoln During the War of tne Rebellion 

Steubenville will Dedicate a Bronze Statue of Heroic Size of Stanton During Home 

Coming ^/eek. Commencing September 3, 1911 



a v 



o 
o 

_J 

> 

z 

UJ 

CO 

D 

UJ 

H 
en 

< 

UJ 

Z 



< 

u. 

z 

O 

O 



IP 

v ;> 



o 
o 

uJ 
j 
J 

> 
z 

uJ 
ffl 
D 

UJ 

H 
en 

u. 
O 

>- 
H 
U 
UJ 

X 
H 



< 



IE 



IDC 



□ t=30E 



eubenville 



Jhio 



"/'//,' /Av/// 0///^ Workshop oj the World" 



\ = \ 

FAMOUS FOR 

Iron, Steel, Tin, Glass, Pottery, Paper, Coal, 
Oil, Gas and Fire Clay 




Printed and Published by 



The Steuben ville Cermania Press 



under the auspices of 



The Chamber of Commerce 



sifoi h i i isi h i i rsifi 



©CI.A283572 












Steubenville 
Ohio 

l'.v A. D. Mac Mii.i.vn 
Secretary Chamber of Commerce 



The activity and complexity of life in our modern cities has a 
charm for the keen American mind. Whether we live in them or not 

we lake an active interest in our great centers of population. 
By far the most of us cannot travel from place to place anil 
learn from personal observation their different characteristics, 
but we do satisfy our inquisitiveness from the pages of books, 
papers, magazines and the ever-present postal card. Even the i< i 
merly slighted advertising page is now delightful, and we come to 
know with almost personal familiarity the quaint piers where fishing 
schooners are lying in an eastern seaport, the ceaseless hurry of 
thousands along the most famous street in our country that one looks 
down upon as he leans against the rail of the elevated station over- 
hanging the street, the 1 i ans-coiitinenlal express in the Rockies high 
above the nucleus of a future cite in the irrigated plains below, tin- 
cotton covered levees of southern low us, or the great steel mills ol the 
iron region where the lurid glare "l the flames ami molten metal at 
night makes the high fui naces canopied with smoke clouds stand out 
fierv red against the surrounding darkness. 

Taking the train west from Pittsburg, one crosses the "Pan 
Handle" section of West Virginia and soon comes out on the Ohio 
River, forty-three miles from the "Smoky City." As the train passes 
over the bridge, high above the stream, the passenger sees Steubenville, 
Ohio, along a broad shell oftheoriginal river hed to the south with the 
wooded bluffs surrounding it like an ampitheatre. Something in the 
solidity of its appearance betokens the soundness and strength of its 
commerce. Situated in the upper Ohio Valley, in the midst of that 
yreat industrial region between Wheeling and Pittsburg, it is well 
called, "The Heart of the Workshop of the World." Not only does 
its location on the river afford it many advantages in a commercial 
way, hut also lends a beauty to its surroundings that rivals that along 
any of our great waterways. Boarding the night train in New York 
or Chicago, one can eat breakfast the next morning in Steubenville. 
The cool winds of the Ureat Lakes or the sunny fields of the South 
are likewise within easy reach. 

In the industrial boom following the war with Spain a number of 
manufacturing concerns seeking locations were attracted by the many 
natural advantages of Steubenville. Their convictions were soon shown 
in material form and with their advent Steubenville began to grow. 
For years her population had remained about 14,500, but now 111 the 
space of a few years it increased by half again, and today is a hustling 
city of 25,000. As Steubenville advanced she brought prosperity and 
growth to the whole region oi which she is the natural center. New 
industries came into the "Steubenville District" and two new towns 
rose entire beside the river where formerly were only gardens and 



hay fields. Within eight miles of the city there are now between 
forty and fifty thousand people, most of whom can reach the shopping 
district within half an hour any time during the day. 

With this increase within and around the city it developed in 
every way; new railroads were built, interurtjan trolley lines up and 
down the river brought the city in close touch with adjacent sections 
of the country, with a service that is cheap and accommodating, 
bridges crossed the river and the city crept up over the bluffs and 
spread out in two new beautiful suburbs. 

The building record during these years has kept steady pace with 
the increase in population and wealth. Real estate has been a profit- 
aide investment, the value of new lots and old property going up to- 
gether. On LaBelle View, the hilltop suburb, 225 residences, worth 
$800,000, have been erected, and on l'leasant Heights, its neighbor, 
over 150 houses have gone up. Paved streets and sidewalks, trolley 
cars, electric lights, well kept lawns and modern homes surprise the 
former resident who knew this region a few years ago as simply a 
farm. Over $7,000,000 have been invested and 1500 houses erected 
within the corporate limits in the last ten years. 

Schools and Churches 

While this record for private houses was being made, the city 
added many new public buildings to a list that was already substan- 
tial. Increases in population are most, quickly reflected in the at- 
tendance of the public schools, and with characteristic zeal the city 
prepared to take care of its many children. As the hilltop suburbs 
grew, school houses were located at central positions, and in the south 
end the Lincoln school was erected to answer the demand created by 
the rapid populating of that section, when the LaBelle Iron Works 
moved into the neighborhood and the trolley system was extended 
through it. 

The wdiole school system appropriately converges in the modern 
Wells High School Building on the corner of North Fourth and North 
Streets, a well-chosen site, since it is the geographical and population 
center of the city. In the arrangement and equipment of the build- 
ing everything was made as up-to-date as the most modern experience 
could suggest. The building is simple and dignified in architecture 
and substantial in appearance, being made of light red pressed brick 
faced with Bedford stone. From the broad halls within one steps 
into light, airy study and recitation rooms, handsome offices and ven- 
tilated locker rooms. All the study rooms are flooded with light from 
large windows located entirely at the left of the pupils, and as the 
building has a northern exposure the light is steady but never glar- 
ing. Thermostats, fan-driven, fresh air ventilation, sanitary drinking 
fountains, individual lockers, fire equipment, rest room and gymnas- 
ium, speak of the splendid care that is taken of the health of the 
students. The large auditorium on the main floor seats 700 people 
and is furnished with a stage from which many entertainments are 
given each season. The cost of the building was over $100,000.00. 

Among the churches Steubenville numbers some of her most im- 
posing structures. Of the twenly-five, nine have been built in the 
last decade and practically every one is a modern building owned 
clear of debt by its parish. The thronged streets on Sunday morning 
have often been remarked upon by visitors and testify to the sound 
religious character of the community. 

Young Men's Christian Association 

Supplementing the churches with its practical work, the Y. M. 
C. A. is one of the most prominent institutions in the city. Though 
long established, the Y. M. C. A was without its own home until the 



spring of 1909. The bequest ol a prominent merchant started the 
movement to secure .1 Fully equipped building which would be .1 
"character factory" for men and boys and an ornament to Steuben 
ville. In tl.e early part ol [90; the bush ess nun took hold of the 

project and in a whirlwind campaign of i<> days raised Jiio,i 

and assured the success of the building. Today it '-lands on North 
Fourth Street, within a block of the center of the city, a handsome 
four story building of light Inn Land terra cotta. The front portion 

of the main flour is one large open room, used as a lobby, reading 
room, social room and office, On the right side are the check room, offii 
and the restaurant furnished in mission style, where meals are served 
at a moderate priee. On the left is the broad stairwaj li siding to the 
upper floors, and the billiard room; in the rear is the gymnasium and 
the physical directors office The base tient is occupied by the Boys 
Department in front, loeker rooms, bowling alleys of the very best 
make, Turkish bath, shower baths and a swimming tank, [6 x 50 feet 
and from ;, ' 4 to ~'j feet in depth, lined with porcelain hriek and tile. 
The second floor contains five class rooms, the Business Men's Club 
and the main auditorium, A dumb waiter connects a small pantry 
off the auditorium witli the kitchen, which makes it convenient to 
Serve 1 if<li t refreshments at the close of entertainments in the hall. 
The two stories above are used as dormitories. There are thirty-four 
rooms, each furnished with a desk, desk chaii and lamp, chiffonier, 
rocker, wardrobe and half bed. Shower baths in the spacious toilet 
rooms on each floor have helped to make the apartments such nhal 
rooming quarters that for months the Secretary has held a waiting 
list of applicants. There are at present five hundred members who 
keep the gymnasium, educational classes and other departments in a 
state of constant activity. Perhaps the most attractive feature of all 
is the grill 100m which is crowded three limes a day with strangers 
and townspeople, who End here an unusual opportunity to become 
acquainted. A welcome is extended to all and the visitor in the city 
especially is invited to avail himself of the comforts of this public in- 
stitution in which the city justly lakes great pride. 

Steubenville Business College 

Another institution of recognized merit and one that has met with 
unusual success is the Steubenville Business College. Professor 
J. T. Thompson, the principal, is an educator and school 
manager of wide experience and known ability, and has successfully 
taught hundreds of students who are now filling responsible and lu- 
crative positions in all parts of the country. 

In the way of furniture, equipment, instructors and courses of 
study, the school ranks among the first 111 the country, and has su] - 
plied all our mills, factories, banks, insurance offices, law offices, rail- 
wavs and mercantile houses with well trained, efficient office help. 
The various departments are elegantly equipped with all modern bus- 
iness office appliances. The courses of study are broad and practical, 
and include all the important subjects of a thorough business train- 
ing. The splendid equipment, together with the high character of 
the instruction given, place the Steubenville Business College in the 
front rank of commercial schools. 

National Exchange Bank Building 

It was natural that a city with the industrial activity of Steuben- 
ville should have a great demand lor offices in the busint SS section. 
The National Exchange Bank, whose increasing business called for 
enlarged quarters, determined to put up a five st,,i\ 111, idem office 
building. It was finished in 1904 at a cost of 1 1 75,000.00. Mo 



floors, hardwood finish, elevators, mail chutes and electric lights go 
to make it a luxurious home for a large body pi the city's business 
and professional men. 

Carnegie Library 

( )tie of the interesting bits of Steubenville's history is the fact that 
Andrew Carnegie started his career as a telegraph operator in this 
place. It was quite appropriate therefore, that he should present the 
city with a library. The building, which cost Sb2,ooo, stands on the 
corner of Slack and South Fourth Streets and greatly enhances the 
beauty of that section of the city. Over 12,000 volumes are at the 
disposal of the public and the circulation of over 66,000 volumes an- 
nually shows that the liberal education it offers is thoroughly ap- 
preciated. 

Gill Hospital 

In 1901 . Mr. J. J. Gill, one of the partners in the Acme Glass Co., 
erected a hospital on one of his lots in the north end of the city and 
equipped it with operating room and all first class requirements at a 
cost of $50,000.00. Twenty-one patients can be cared for regularly, 
with provision for more if necessary. In an industrial city like Steu- 
benville especially, such an institution is an adjunct of vital import- 
ance and lias many times over paid for itself in preserving for future 
usefulness the city's most valuable natural resource, her citizens. 

New Railroad Station and Postoffice 

Sixty-three trains run out of Steubenville every day carrying over 
4,000 passengers. The largest part of this immense traffic is handled 
by the "Pan Handle'' Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in 
recognition of this fact the Company has drawn up plans and started 
the construction of a handsome commodious station thai is to cost 
J150.OOO.OO ami be one ol the most attractive as well as useful public 
buildings in the city. 

Another new public building that is to be erected shortly is the 
post office. Congress has appropriated £120,000.00 for this purpose 
and so hi Steubenville people can point with pride to one more beauti- 
ful structure. The annual postal receipts of $54,353.00 show that this 
office is well within the selt-sustainiug class. 

Lodges and Societies 

The various lodges and societies, of which there are thirty-live, 
add largely to the social life of the place and enable any Ulan to enjoy 
the advantages offered by the different orders. All are quartered in 
spacious lodge rooms in the business section, but it is expected that 
soon the Klks will build a hall on North Fourth Street, beyond theY. 
M. C. A. Among these societies the Country Club holds a prominent 
and unique place. The Chili was established in [908 by a group of 
men that early saw the splendid social advantage such an institution 
offered. It quickly rose in favor and numbers today two hundred 
members on its roll. The site selected is along the river north of the 
city, the clubhouse resting on a hillside from which a \ iew is afforded 
down one of the most beautiful stretches of the Ohio Valley. An 
eighteen hole golf course is laid out over the eighty-two acres ill the 
property, while two tennis courts of the most improved construction 
give ample opportunity for sport. Supper is served on the open porch 
every evening during the season and oil Friday nights especially the 
members gather in large numbers for the weekly dance. 

The Chamber of Commerce 

Another organization, which has been especially valuable to the 
city, is the Chamber of Commerce. This body was incorporated in 



the spring of [908 by a small group of earnest men who were alivi 
the importance of promoting the civic and commercial interest 
their city. A. banquet was held at which the movement was placed 
before ill the leading business men and immediately the membership 
was increased t<> two hundred, a permanent secretary secured and the 
work of boosting Steubenville put upon a business basis. That work 
is of a varied nature and includes within its scope the charities of the 
city, civic improvements, legislation, municipal affairs, taxation, 
transportation, new industi ies, and increased trade from the surround- 
ing territory. The abundance of the natural advantages of tins region 
have been recognized by many business men and has led them to lo- 
cate plants here. The Chamber of Commerce is taking an active in- 
terest in getting more industries and is always read} to co-operate 
with anyone wishing information with such an end in view. 
Whether or not this more serious reason may be a factor 111 
an inquiry, the Chamber of (.ommerce is always glad to make 
anyone more acquainted with the "Steubenville District" and 
extends a special invitation to all strangers and visitors in the 
city to visit its offices on the fourth floor of the National Ex- 
Change Bank Building. Steubenville is already the center of a great 
industrial region and the Chamber of Commerce is determined to 
make her more than ever "The Heart of The Workshop of The 
World." 

City Water Works 

Three miles up the river, at Alikanna. are the City Water Works. 
Though erected in 1895, they are still regarded among the finest 
along the < Ihio River, and being built with an eye for the future, w ith 
full confidence in the growth of this region, they are today fully com- 
petent to supply a city twice the size of the present one. The pump- 
ing station is a fine stone building surrounded by a small park on the 
bank far above high water. Two lines of intake pipts extend 800 
feet out into the water, ending in a rocky crevasse, where many nat- 
ural springs in the riverbed feed them with pure water. 

The high pressure reservoir is on one of the bluffs 330 feet per- 
pendicular height above the station. It is lined with concrete and 
combined with the low pressure reservoir, has a total storage capac- 
ity of 7,200,000 gallons. As the daily pumping capacity of the sta- 
tion is 6,000,000 gallons and the daily consumption is 2,500,000 gal- 
lons, Steubenville is in no danger of a water famine. 

The pressure varies from forty pounds in the low system to one 
hundred and thirty-eight in the high. There are over three hundred 
fire hydrants, from any one of which five streams of water can be 
thrown at the same time over any building in the city. The total 
valuation of the Works is about $400,000, tile yearly revenue approx- 
imates £60,000.00 and the expenditures are #42, 000.00, so that the 
Works not only pay for themselves but also maintain the sinking 
fund, provide for pipe extensions and furnish free water for all the 
city buildings, schools, churches, fires and street sprinkling. 

Fire Department 

The city is justly proud of a lire department that ri\als that in 
any place twice its size. The citizens have learned that if they wish 
to see the apparatus go by on one of its spectacular runs they must 
be on the street immediately. The department has sixty volunteers 
and thirteen regular firemen that are noted for their neat appear- 
ance and enthusiasm. Their annual rabbit dinners in the fall and 
turtle sou]) suppers in the spring are looked forward to by the whole 

town as among the most delightful of the regular social functions of 

the city. Two of the fire stations are downtown and one is Oil each 



of the two hilltop suburbs. The "Reliance" Company is housed in a 
Specially fine station, beautiful architecturally and designed after the 
latest models in the large cities. As explained before, the high 
pressure water system eliminates the necessity of fire engines. Dur- 
ing the twelve months ending June 30th, 1910, there were ninety-four 
fires causing damages to the amount of {4,600.00, a remarkable rec- 
ord, which show-, the highest efficiency in the fire fighting force. 

Financial Institutions 

The financial institutions of a place always reflect its real pros- 
perity and commercial stability. Steubenyille has three national, 
two private and three foreign banks, besides four building and loan 
associations. Their total capital amounts to # 1,356,520.06, total sur- 
plus 5629, 736.75, and total assets #8.817,07762. The plants already 
here are examples of what Steubenyille men have done with capital 
furnished largely by these institutions, and with such backing added 
to the abundance of natural resources, new industries of worth will 
find here most congenial soil in which to grow. 

City Finances 

The city's financial statement for 1909 showed receipts of 
$397,823.55 and expenditures of #383,069.00, leaving a balance of 
#'4. 754-55- The total bonded debt equals #504,591.67, while the cash 
valuation of the sinking fund for debt redemption amounts to #60,- 
191.44. In this debt is included Water Works Bonds, #165,000.00, 
Garbage Disposal Bonds, #11,000.00, Sewer Bonds, #99,000.00, and 
Improvement Bonds, #65,550.00. There are in the city twenty-one 
miles of sewers, twenty-four miles of paved roads, and three hundred 
arc lights, for which the city pays the lighting company #63.00 per 
light a year. Most of these improvements have come in the last 
few years, but now that the demands of the city along these lines 
have been nearly met, the present expense will be steadily reduced. 

Newspapers 

The life of the city and vicinity finds expression in two daily and 
four weekly newspapers. The Herald-Star lays claim to being the 
pioneer paper in Ohio, having been founded in 1806. Today it is 
making another big stride forward in its steady progress by erecting 
its own building on North Fourth street. This is to be three stories 
high, having in front on the main floor the business office of the pa- 
per and the store room and ticket office of the theatre which will 
occupy the centre of the building. The theatre is to be a model of 
its kind, built with an inclined floor and a gallery where 750 people 
can enjoy the entertainments. The second floor is to contain the 
editorial offices, and the third will be given up to apartments. The 
rear will be devoted to the mechanical department. 

Ill the midst of a strong Republican community, the daily Steu- 
benyille Gazette, the leading Democratic paper in the county, finds 
plenty of material to employ the recognized abilities of its editorial 
staff. Strong in its convictions and always fair in a fight, this paper 
is rightly held in high regard not only in its own locality, but among 
party circles throughout the state. 

The Steubenyille Germania is a weekly newspaper printed in the 
German language. It is owned and printed by Joseph Niederhuber, 

the proprietor of the Germania Press, on North Court street. 

II Telegraphio Marconi is a weekly Italian newspaper owned and 
edited by Y. A. Morelli, and printed by the Germania Press. With 
the coming of the steel and tin mills and other large employers of 
Italian labor, the field for this paper has been constantly widened. 



Union Cemetery 

Early in the history of the city the different churches joined in 
purchasing a tract of land west of the city to be used as a cemetery. 
The 250 acres included within its area extend from West Market 
street in tile middle of the city to Lincoln Avenue on the south. It 
contains six miles of some of the best macadamized roads in the state 
which were built by the cemetery force. Seventy-live acres are cov- 
ered by woods, lying largely in a w led ravine, through which run 

many walks and roads which are always open to the public, making 
one of the finest natural parks in any city in the country. 

Parks 

When the hill top suburbs were developed by the land company, 
twenty acres of land along the bluffs were deeded to the city lor park 
purposes. Roads and walks have been laid out and small trees, planted 
over a large section, making it a beautiful spot from which to get the 
fresh breezes blowing down the valley and to look out over the city 
and across to the foot-hills of West Virginia. 

Two miles up the river the Steubenville and East Liverpool Rail- 
way and Light Company has laid out Stanton 1'ark, named after the 
great War Secretary of Lincoln's cabinet, who was born and lived in 
Steubenville. In a thickly wooded valley ponds and pavilions have 
been made, supplemented by all modern amusements, and a dancing 
casino, from which one looks across the Ohio to the famous "Half 
Moon Farm" lying in a great bend of the river. Here crowds of peo- 
ple from the city find refreshment in the summer evenings or enjoy 
the dancing parties which are social features of the season. The 
birthplace and boyhood home of William Dean Howells, the famous 
author, is within a short distance of the park. 

Climate and Drainage 

One of the greatest factors in determining a man's state of mind 
is the weather. Its vagaries are reflected in our moods and general 
conversation until its psychological effect is more than mere disgust 
at an inconvenient downpour of rain or joy at clear skies on the 4II1 
of July. The South is noted for its warm hospitality, the West for 
its breezy exuberance, and some parts of the North are at times ac- 
cused of a conservatism that is akin to their chilly fogs, but here 
along the Ohio, geographically the"Hubof the Country," even if not 
mentally the "Hub of the Universe," the steady even climate, which 
lacks the extremes of any sections but combines them all into one 
comfortable average, offers a common meeting point where one can 
hear the nasal "Great gosh all hemlock," of the rural North, greet 
the musically drawled "right sinaht" of the South, while the West 
and the East swap horse-pistols for gold bonds. Officially, observa- 
tions show the following for a period of six years: 

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. 
January 31.60 July 75.60 

February 32.60 August 73-' So 

March 39-3" September 67.60 

April .. 55 October 53.40 

Mav_ . 64.IO November. -4'-4° 

June 7360 December.. 32.60 

Annual mean for six years, 54. 
With an elevation of 630 feet above sea level for the river at low- 
water in front of the city, 715 feet at Court House and [2O0 feet on 
the hill-tops, the whole city slopes gently towards the river, affording 
perfect natural drainage. Ill addition, the gravel formation under the 
city and the 21 miles of combined storm and sanitary sewers make a 



complete system of drainage The annual mean rainfall of 41.76 
inches causes a frequent washing of the streets and flushing of the 
sewers which empty into the river below the city. The municipal 
garbage disposal plant burns the garbage collected in the city. 

Transportation 

Advantageous production is but half of the battle for industrial 
supremacy: accessibility tcj market is so important that it is often the 
greatest factor in determining the location of a plant. Nearness to 
market and transportation that is reliable, rapid and cheap form the 
ideal conditions on this side of the question. Situated midway be- 
tween the great markets of the Bast and West and right at the door of 
the Great Lakes and the South. Steubenville is as advantageously lo- 
cated as could be imagined, while the transportation service by rail 
and water to all points is ideal. Two lines of railroad run east ami 
west and two north and south, all of which are supplemented by the 
Ohio River. In the city proper the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and 
St. Louis, and the Cleveland ami Pittsburg Division of the Pennsyl- 
vania Lines and the Wheeling and Lake Brie Division of the Wabash 
System and across the river the Pittsburg, Wheeling and Kentucky 
Division of the Pennsylvania Lines offer every passenger and freight 
facility. By these lines New' York is [0 hours distant, Chicago, 12; 
St. Louis, 15; Cincinnati, 7' 2 ; and Cleveland, 4. Sixty-four trains, 
carrying 4000 passengers, run out of the city every (lay, while the 
daily tonnage shipped is 15,000 tons. 

liver since the first pioneers came over the Allegheny Mountains, 
the Ohio River has been the source of transportation for this region, 
about which all others have been grouped. The moving of vast 
amounts of tonnage at cheap water rates has been of tremendous ad- 
vantage to the manufacturers along the river. The importance of 
maintaining this water traffic throughout the year is so clearly recog- 
nized that the United States government has adopted a definite policy 
towards the improvement of the Ohio River and is spending millions 
of dollars every year in the construction of a system of locks and 
dams which will slackwater the river from Pittsburg to Cairo. 

The first dam on the river was built at Davis Island, below Pitts- 
burg, and was completed in 18S5 at a cost of $1,000,000. So success- 
ful has it proved that all the other dams are to be of the same type. 
Kach dam is built with a lock 600 feet long and 1 10 feet wide. The 
dam proper is in sections, or wickets, 4 feet wide, hinged at the bot- 
tom to the dam and supported by a prop, which is tripped and the 
wicket allowed to lie flat when the water is high enough to give a nine 
foot stage without the dam. The size of the locks will permit freight 
ami coal barges with a tonnage equal to a large oce^n steamer to pass 
through. Sixty-eight dams, costing f 1, 000,000 each, will be required 
to complete the series to Cairo. Already the river is slackwatered to 
the nine foot stage from Pittsburg to Rochester, forty miles above 
Steubenville, three of the dams between Rochester and Steubenville 
are practically completed, and the dam at Brilliant, which will give 
slackwater in front of the city is now finished, except for hanging the 
gales, so that in a few years the river will always be navigable from 
Steubenville to Pittsburgh. In preparation for the increased 
trade which this will bring, the city has built a public wharf 
at the font of .Market street. It is made of the very best paving 
block to stand the action of the water and present the right surface 
for the heavy teaming to which it will be subjected. 

Many people fail to clasp the significance and importance of this 
stupendous project. Today, under the present handicaps, over 15,- 
000,000 tons of freight pass Steubenville annually on a fleet of loo 
tOW boats ami 4,1 boats and barges, whose capacity of 4,000,000 tons 



is greater than the tonnage (if all the registered vessels in any seaport 
of the United States. With navigation assured throughout the yeai 
this will be multiplied many times, transportation will be less hazard- 
ous anil the lowest freight rates of any inland district in the world 
will result. The all- water route down the Ohio and the .Mississippi 
will put this great industrial region in touch with every port in the 

world, especially after the completion of the Panama Canal. Its in- 
ternational importance can be recognized from the fact that coal for 
the Japanese fleets in the war with Russia was transported down the 
Ohio. At the present rale of increase the population of the Inked 
States will he doubled in the next forty years. These millions must 
build up new industrial communities which will be along the great 
arteries of trade. Then this region, with its great supplies of natural 
resources and its transportation by rail to all parts of the country and 
by water to all parts of the globe, will truly throb as "The Heart of 
the Workshop of the World." 

The necessity of having cheap water transportation for industries 
whose product involves high tonnage is now so well established that 
the movement is on foot to build a canal from the Ohio river at Ro- 
chester, twenty-eight miles below Pittsburgh, to Lake Erie, a project 
which will cost the comparatively small sum of #50,000,000. The de- 
termination to have this canal in the immediate future is so strong 
that even it Federal and State aid should not be given, the business 
men of this region will construct it as a private enterprise. This will 
give an all-water route from Duluth and enable the manufacturers of 
this region to bring their ore from the lake to the river at a cost of 25 
cents instead of #1.25 a ton. In turn, the finished products can be 
shipped by the canal to the lake and thence to Buffalo and Albany by 
the Erie canal, on which the State of New York is expe ding #101,- 
000,000 to make it suitable for modern demands in five years. With 
water transportation down the Ohio to the Gulf and through these 
canals to New York, this district will have such cheap and regular 
water connections that her leading industrial position will lie unas- 
sailable. 

The bulk of the local passenger traffic is served by a splendid 
trolley service which meets every demand. By it one can live on the 
hilltop suburbs and work anywhere in the Steubenville district with 
as much cond'ort as in the older portion of the city, while interurban 
lines give cheap, rapid transportation at all hours to and from the 
neighboring towns and country. Because of the nature of the coun- 
try along the river most of these lines were built at great cost, and 
credit is due the companies that they give excellent service at the 
lowest price. Up the river the Ohio Valley Scenic Route takes one 
for forty miles through the most beautiful section of the Ohio valley. 
It is the direct route to Toronto, Wellsville, East Liverpool, Beaver, 
Rochester, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Canton and Cleveland. Down 
the river on the Ohio side, the Steubenville & Wheeling Traction Co. 
connects with Mingo Junction and Brilliant. The new track beside 
the river to Mingo Junction cost #225,000 for 1.8 miles, probably one 
of the most expensive bits of trolley line in the country. 
Through the energy of Mr. D. J. Sinclair, the most prom- 
inent citizen of the city, a steel bridge was launched across the 
river at the foot of Market street, a boulevard cut in the face of the 
bluff and a trolley line constructed to l'ollansbee and Wellsburg, 
where direct connection is made for Wheeling. Two more lines 
have been planned which will connect Steubenville with other points, 
one from Steubenville to the new town of Weirton, six miles above the 
city, and the other to Canton, Ohio. Both of these lines would open 
up a rich country and add largely to the prominence of Steubenville 
as a transportation center. 



Not ti> lie outdone by her steam, water aiul trolley lines, the city 
itself has twenty-four miles of the best kind of street paving, which 
means that practically every street and alley has this improvement. 
The county, too, is known as having the hest macadamized roads in 
the State, $[,000,000 having been expended upon her 154 mile.-, of 
roads of this construction. In addition, there are eight miles of brick 
paved highways and 750 miles of dirt roads, all of which enable far- 
mers and autoists to move quickly from place to place, and brings the 
country in clost touch with the city. 

Natural Resources 

The first work of the early settlers in a new place was to hew out 
a farm from the surrounding forest. The abundance of wood was 
burned for all purposes, and for a longtime did away with the neces- 
sity in this region of developing the coal veins, whose presence was 
known and which could he obtained with little more labor than the 
wood. It was not until commerce had been well advanced that it was 
called into use because of its greater adaptability for industrial pur- 
poses. Today there are two mines within the corporate limits of 
Steubenville, the High Shaft and the La Belle. The La Belle mine is 
located under the river and the site of the La Belle Iron Works, its 
production of 126,000 tons a year being used entirely by the plant 
itself. The High Shaft was opened in 1X57, and is said to lie the old- 
est mine in the State. It now employs seventy-five men and is oper- 
ated entirely by electricity, four cutting machines and two electric 
motors being used to get out the annual production of [50,000 tons. 
A shaft 225 feet in depth reaches the four foot vein of No. 6, Ohio Ge- 
ological Survey, coal. As coal and coke, this is equal to the Pitts- 
burgh coal, and analyses at the following figures: 

COAL. COKE. 

Carbon 56.07 Carbon. . 86. 12 

Volatile Matter 38. 54 Volatile Matter 2.35 

Ash 2.90 Ash 9-883 

Sulphur .76 Sulphur 1.48 

Water _. . 1.73 Water .15 

Phosphorus __ .0017 



100.00 99-9^47 

Jefferson County, of which Steubenville is the County Seat, stands 
thrrd among the counties of the State in the mining of coal, the main 
development having come since the Wheeling& Lake Hrie railroad was 
put through this section in [888. Veins Nos. 6, 7 and 8 are the prin- 
cipal ones mined. The last report of the State Mining Department 
shows that in 1908 the total number of tons mined in Jefferson county 
was 3,565,00s, practically one-eighth of the total output of the State. 
In 1907 there were 5,787 men employed in the mines of the county. 

Jefferson County is also fortunate in its deposits of fire clay. In 
this she stands first in the State with a production of 450,1 1 1 tons out 
of 2,177,174 for the whole State. While fire clay is found in connec- 
tion with the coal mines over the most of the county, the industry is 
confined mainly to the stretch of five or six miles along the Ohio river 
beginning seven miles north of Steubenville. Both sides of the river 
are lined with works turning out sewer pipe, tiling and brick. 

In late years the Steubenville district and Jefferson County have 
gained some distinction in the development of gas and oil fields. 
While the greatest quantities of gas used in the man 11 f act tiring establish- 
ments of the vicinity come from the West Virginia fields, the supply 
has been largely supplemented by local wells. Oil was found in vary- 
ing quantities throughout the county, but the larger fields have been 
opened up in the last few years within a few miles of the city. The 



field just back of the city had an output of 2,300 barrels a day. In 
1907 the La Belle Iron Works, while prospecting fi their 

property across the river from the southern end of the city, op tied up 
a pool whose production shortly ran up to 3,000 barrels a day, and is 

still good for 1,500 to I,8oo per month. The trend of this p 

other men to sink test wells on the < >hio side at Mingo Junction, tin 

town adjoining Steubenville 011 the south, oil was struck and a 
boom followed which was a live representation of Cripple Creek or the 

Klondike in their palmiest days. As the field went into MingO, 
where wells were sunk on the many small individual town lots, tin- 
pool was so rapidly exhausted that hardly any of the speculators 
made profits. Across from the northern end of Steubenville a field 
was opened which was two and a half miles long, with an average 
width of half a mile. The greatest production was 2,000 barrels a day 
and it is still holding up to 1,200 barrels. The total daily output ol 
the county is between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels. 

Industries 

The last ten years have seen a wonderful development in many 
American cities. Their progress has invariably depended upon addi- 
tions to the list of their manufacturing concerns, for not only does in- 
crease in population depend upon the size and strength of the factor- 
ies, but also its wealth and all that it brings in educational facilities, 
civic improvements, better homes, first class stores and general cul- 
ture. The 1905 census of manufactures shows that Steubenville en- 
joyed the largest percentages of increase of any city in Ohio, her cap- 
ital increasing 448.4 per cent., wage earners, 136 percent.; wages, 
217.1 per cent.; and the value of products, 172 per cent. The nearest 
percentage in any item of any other city in ( )hio was 32 per cent. less. 

La Belle Iron Works 

This phenomenal growth of Steubenville has been mainly due to 
the location here of the La Belle Iron Works, a company with a na- 
tional reputation as one of the largest independent mills in the coun- 
try. It was incorporated in 1852 and for years carried on its business 
in Wheeling. In the late '«o's it was decided to enlarge the plant; 
the capitalization was increased to #10, 000,000 and the Jefferson Iron 
Works in Steubenville were purchased, torn down and the present 
works erected on the site. 

Its slogan, "From Wine to Market," describes its position as a 
truly independent mill. The Company owns and operates its own ore 
mines, coal mines, coke plants, limestone deposits, blast furnaces, 
steel plant and finishing departments. This position of self-contain- 
ment makes possible the most economical manufacture and insures a 
uniform product of high grade. 

The Company owns one stripping and two shaft mines in the ftle- 
saba district of Lake Superior, the former having a record of 4,660 
gross tons, or 233 carloads of ore mined and shipped in one day. 
From the mine the ore is taken by rail to the docks on the shores of 
Lake Superior where it is transferred to the steamer La Belle, a mod 
ern lake vessel owned and operated by the Company, which brings it 
to one of the neighboring ports on Lake Erie. It is then brought over 
to Steubenville on either the Pennsylvania railroad or the Wabash, 
both of which have connections with the internal system of the works. 
With the completion of the Ohio River and Lake Hrie Canal, ore may 
lie brought by water direct to the mill from the Superior docks — 
another practical economy from "Mine to Market." 

The Company maintains a cokeplant in the famous Corinellsville 
region, where it owns and mines its own cokingcoal. kailw.n facil- 
ities from the plant to Steubenville are very good, ami shipments can 



also be made entirely by water if so desired. Another very favorable 
feature of the Steubenville plant is that its coal mines are directly be- 
neath the property. Coal, which is a large factor in the production of 
steel, is therefore obtained at cost. Gas and oil are also found on the 
property in large quantities. 

The I, a Belle is an open hearth plant, this method having proved 
to produce the best steel free from the undesirable phosphorus and 
sulphur. It operates ten open hearth furnaces, having a capacity of 
sixty tons each per heat or a total capacity of approximately 1500 tons 
daily. Tests are made of each heat or charge during the boiling pro- 
cess in order to ascertain the exact quality, and, if desired, make any 
change before pouring. This makes it possible to deliver steel of uni- 
form quality, which is a primary requisite in the successful manufac- 
ture of finished steel for whatever purposes. 

The initial heat of the ingot is retained from the furnaces through 
the soaking pits and the blooming mill, which has a capacity of one 
ton per minute. It is there cut up into billets and slabs or conveyed 
to the plate mill, where it is rolled into car and ship plates, skelp 
sheet and tin bars. This one mill has a capacity of thirty car loads 
every twenty-four hours. Pipe is also one of the main products. The 
sheet department covers an area of 10 acres and consists of two job- 
bing and eight sheet mills, having a capacity of 6,5a) gross tons 
monthly. The equipment throughout the whole plant is of the most 
modern type, so arranged as to turn out the various products with the 
least handling and cost. 

The Compan)' owns eleven locomotives of its own, besides the 
two maintained for its exclusive use by the Pennsylvania railroad and 
the Wabash, whose lines pass the plant. These are operated over a 
yard trackage aggregating forty miles. Foundry, testing laboratory 
and power plant are other important departments, the latter having 
within it 32 boilers with a total rated capacity of 16,000 horse 
power, and six generators, six hundred electric motors being in daily 
operation in various parts of the mill. The final step in the com- 
pleteness and consistency of its policy of self-containment is shown 
in the location of the general offices of the Company at the plant, the 
successful administration of such an extensive business calling forthe 
personal attention and presence of every officer of the Company. 

Some statistics for 1910 regarding the Company make a very in- 
teresting showing: 

Capital stock $10,000,000.00 

Assets 17,378,092 59 

Dividends 892,339.00 

(S'» first two quarters — 10% last two quarters. ) 

Value of shipments $13,719,912.00 

Total production of ore 396,101 tons 

Total production of coke 69., 949 tons 

Total production of oil ._. 31,227 barrels 

Tonnage of finished product 960,940 tons 

Number of employees 3,600 

Pay roll _ f 3,095,507 

The Acme Glass Works 

For a long time one of the leading industries has been the Acme 
Class Works. These works were first established by a co-operative 
company from Pittsburgh, but now have been owned by the Gill 
Brothers Company for over thirty-five years. They are known all over 
the country as the largest manufacturers of lamp chimneys under one 
roof. Through long experience and faithful experiment the quality 
of their chimneys, globes, reflectors and electrical glassware has se- 
cured a reputation that extends beyond the borders of this country, 



their exports going into Africa, Central and South America, the 
Orient and Australia. The works have been increased from time to 
time so that now it comprises four furnaces, with an aggregate of 54 

pots, which gives a capacity ol 600,000 to s "'>, lamp chimneys a 

week. 1,100 men are employed, many of whom have grown up with 
the business and are numbered among the best citizens of the plai 

The Steubenville Pottery 

( die of the most progressive plants in the city is the Steubenville 
Pottery. This old, substantial firm has been one of the pillars of 
Steubenville's commerce, and is now enjoying unusual success under 
its young president and proprietor, Mr. II. I) Wintringer, who is also 

president of the Chamber of Commerce. In his pottery Mr. Wint- 
ringer has heen able to exercise an artistic taste that has led him 
away from the old lines to bring out new creations in semi-vitreous 
porcelain dinner and toilet sets and specialties. It isone of the sights 
of the town for a visitor to go through the plant and see how quickly 
the white, chalky clay from England, New Jersey or Florida is mix- 
ed, then shaped into a cup, saucer or cocoa jug under the deft fingers 
of the potter, baked in the kilns, glazed, decorated, baked again to 
hold the colors and finally packed in big casks to go off to some de- 
partment store or johher. From Maine to California one may find his 
dinner served on Steubenville ware. 

The Ohio Valley Clay Company 

Closely allied with the manufacture of glass in Steubenville and 

vicinity is the manufacture of glass house pots, tanks and blocks by 
the Ohio Valley Clay Company. The product of this up-to-date con- 
cern finds a wide market wherever glass is made in the United States 
or Canada. The able president of the Acme Glass Company, Mr. J. 
\Y. Gill, is also president of this linn. I luring the last year the rapid 
growth of its business has necessitated an extension of the plant, SO 
that today it is a thoroughly modern and model plant ot its kind and 
covers a floor space of 12 ' 2 acres. 

Chicago Wall Paper Mill 

One of the younger industries is the Chicago Wall Paper Mill. 
Under the direction of its able president, Mr. O. J. Ilennings, this 
plant has established a brilliant record for itself and is now one of 
.the most successful concerns in the city. 4,500,000 rolls of paper 
hangings are turned out annually, the plant being pushed to keep up 
with the orders that await it. It employs 55 men, and plans are now 
complete for increasing the capacity of the plant 50 per cent and 
adding a warehouse. 

Pope Tin Plate Company 

With the establishment of the I. a Belle Iron Works the erection 
beside it of the Pope Tin Mill was but the recognition of the natural 
benefits to be derived from the co-operation of the two plants. From 
the adjoining mill of the La Helle the steel bars are transferred to the 
l'ope mill, where they are rolled, tinned and shipped. 700,, .00 boxes, 
worth $3,000,000, is the approximate annual output. Its product 
finds a large market in the manufacture of cans, enamel ware ami 
steel ceilings throughout this country and the Orient. The Pope 
runs 12 mills and employs 800 men anil is the second largest plant in 
the city. 

The Ohio Foundry and Manufacturing Company 

1 me of the concerns that has grown up with the city i*- the I Ihio 
Foundry, which for 63 years has manufactured stoves ami iron pro- 
ducts. The principal products today are gas stoves and grates of the 



finest design, finished in brass, copper, bronze, Japanese bronze and 
oxidized colors. The plant consists of four large buildings beside the 
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. I.otiis tracks, where switching 
facilities make it possible to receive at the lowest cost the raw mater 
ials for the work which this region produces. 

Hartje Paper Manufacturing Company 

The oldest industry in Steubenville is the Hartje Paper Mill, 
which was established in 1S13. For the past fourteen years it has 
been operated day and night except Sundays, employing 250 hands, 
who turn out a product of wrapping paper, pulp, straw and pulp 
board amounting to 110 tons daily. The wood consumed by this 
plant in one year would make a pile twice the size of the Metropoli- 
tan Tower. A roll of paper 14 miles long and weighing 2,700 pounds, 
the largest in the world, was made here. 

Woods Valve and Machine Company 

Some of the largest users of high pressure hydraulic valves in 
the country are supplied by the Woods Valve Company, which man- 
ufactures a valve that stands a test of 5,000 pounds per square inch. 
The 150 tons approximate output yearly is being steadily increased, 
and will soon be augmented by the tonnage of another specialty in 
the shape of a high grade filter which will be put on the market early 
in the coming year. While as yet one of the younger concerns, the 
Woods Valve Company is showing a healthy growth and is an excel- 
lent example of the possibilities for small diversified industries in this 
district. 

The Steubenville Stone Company 

The Steubenville Stone Company was incorporated in 1903 with a 
capital of $5,000, and has since carried on an extensive business in 
foundation work, stone buildings, concrete building blocks, burial 
vaults, cement pavements, sewers, street paving, and all kinds of 
stone work. Large quantities of stone are obtained from the com- 
pany's quarry on West Market street and sandstone is brought in 
from Indiana. The various lines of work keep thirty masons, cutters 
and laborers regularly employed and others are added in the rush sea- 
sons. 

Floto Brothers Construction Company 

Most of the handsome stone buildings and bridges in this city 
and vicinity have been constructed by the enterprising firm of Floto 
Brothers Construction Co., who do a general contracting and 
building business. 

This company was originally formed and most successfull3 - con- 
ducted by Frederick Floto ami his brother Henry, thirt3'-seven years 
ago. Upon the death of Frederick Floto, in the year 1901, the busi- 
ness passed into the hands of his four sons, l'rank H., Fred N., Chas. 
I), and Louis G. Floto, who have continued it with great success. 

Two quarries are operated near the city. Man}- car loads of Cleve- 
land sand stone and Indiana lime stime are used annually. In addi- 
tion to contracting in stone work, the firm is also extensively engag- 
ed in the manufacture of concrete building blocks of every descrip- 
tion, having an up-to-date plant, with a capacity for manufacturing 500 
blocks daily. Special machines are installed for the manufacture of 
granolithic stone, a special patented reinforced nosing step, porch 
columns and mouldings of all kinds are made. The entire product 
are steam cured, thus ensuring perfect tenstile strength. Among the 
many handsome specimens of concrete work erected by them during 
the past year are the two artistic granolithic concrete bridges erected 
on Lincoln avenue, the Market street granolithic retaining wall and 
drinking fountain, several garagrs and scores of foundations, porches, 
etc. 



Union Lumber Company 

One of the more recent companies in the city is the Union I. inn- 
bur Company which is capitalized at (30,000, ami has located a big 
lumber yard and modern buildings covering 29,000 square feet beside 
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. tracks, oppo- 
site the Ohio Foundry. The yards arc arranged t<> keep the stock in 

systematic piles sheltered from the weather. (25,000 wurth of stock 
is carried and two teams and eight men are employed. The officers 
are J. E. Scamahorn, President; I). II. McDevitt, Secretary; W. S. 
Scamafiorn, General Manager and Treasurer; \V. B. Mc.Mcchcn, Vice 
President. 

James Workman & Sons 

Seventeen years ago Mr. James Workman lniilt a shop and began 
the manufacture of carriages. Since then the shop has never had a 
shut down and has been added to until it is now a two story building 
occupying a large lot. Mr. Workman has had an experience of forty 
years in this line of work, and has now taken his three sons into part- 
nership with him, who, with the twelve men regularly employed, 
make up the force. The latest machinery has been installed, among 
it being a 30-horse power gas engine, which furnishes the power. 
( me hundred handsome business wagons and trucks are put out year- 
ly, while carriage painting and automobile repair work are lines that 
make the plant a busy spot. 

Central Sewer Pipe & Supply Company 

In May, 1907, the Central Sewer Pipe & Supply Company began 
business at a location beside the freight yards of the Pittsburgh, Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago & St. I.ouis Railroad. The warehouse and office oc. 
cupy a large two story building, which is supplemented by a large 
yardage which is always filled with sewer pipe, tile, cement, brick, 
building blocks and wall plaster. Large amounts of material are 
shipped to all points up and down the valley and through the sur- 
rounding country, while a strung trade is carried on with points in 
New England, New York and Kentucky. Four teams and fifteen 
men are employed. The Company is capitalized at $10,000 and has 
for its officers B. S. Pope, President; II. H. Smith, Vice President; 
I). J. Sinclair, Treasurer; and H. W. Irons, General Manager and 
Secretary. 

Other Industries 

Among the other industries of the city are the Steubenville Ice 
Company, which erected a modern plant for making artificial ice in 
[909, and produces a yearly output of 5,500 tons ; the Central Coop- 
erage Company, which turns out 60,000 casks and barrels annually 
valued at #50,000, its product being used principally for packing by 
the glass and pottery companies in this vicinity ; the Aetna Milling 
Company, dealing in flour, grain and feed ; Thomas & Co. Foundry 
and Machine Shop, which deals largely in forging, drilling and fish- 
ing tools and other oil well supplies ; The Ohio Plaster & Sup- 
plv Company, manufacturers of hard wall plaster, with an annual 
production of 7,500 tons ; the Franklin Machine Works and 
Foundry, which is always busy with machine shop work and fine 
brass moulding ; the Alexander, McFeelv Bros., Cavitt, and 
Fitzsimmons Lumber Companies; and the Nicholson Brick Company, 
whose kilns bake 2,000,000 bricks a year. 

Statistics of Growth 

The United States Census for Manufactures in Ohio for 1905 has 
the following to say: 

"Steubenville, the city (in the State) for which the largest per- 



Census 


of 1905. 






lapital. 


Average Num- 
ber "t Wage 
Earner**. 


Wages. 


Value of 

Annual 

Product. 


25-9 


6.6 


1S.6 


17.2 


68.3 


21 .2 


35-6 


36.4 


92.0 


'l.2 


20.9 


41.9 


1750 


79-3 


II 1. 


140.2 


448.4 


136.0 


217. 1 


172.0 


466.43 


268.13 


647.S 


34248 



centages of increase are shown, owes its phenomenal growth chiefly to 
the development of the iron and steel industries and the establish- 
ment since 191m of a mill making tin and terne plates. Other impor- 
tant industries in this city are tin- manufacture of glass, paper, w 1 

pulp, pottery, terra cotta and lire clay products." 

PERCENTAGES OF INCREASE FOR CITIKS IN OHIO 



Number of 
Establishments. < lapital 

Cincinnati 11.5 

Cleveland 19.9 

Youngstown ._ 15.5 

Elyria 56.3 

Steubenville __ 33.3 

-1910 "53.70 

i__I)ecrease. 

2 — Estimated by The Chamber of Commerce, 1910 with 1900. 
3 — Decrease, due to limiting estimate to strictly manufacturing 
plants. 

STEUBENVILLE. 

Census for Manufactures for [900 compared with estimate by 
The Chamber of Commerce for 1910. 

X... of Av. No. "t Value of 

Popul- Estab- Wage Annual 

Vear. lation. lish- Capital Earners. Wages Product, 

ments. 

1900 14349 54 $ 2,302,563 1,773 # 734,244 $4,547,049 

1910 25000 25 13, "43, 000 6,527 4,756,462 20,119,662 

', Increase 74.2 '53.7 4^6.43 26S. 13 647.8 342.4 

1 — Decrease. Accounted for above. 

PITTSBURGH DISTRICT. 

Census of 1905. 

No. of Estab- Av. Nil "I Value"of 

lishments Wage Annual 

Capital. Earners. Wages Prodnct 

1905. _.. 3,673 $735,76i,7o6 202,414 $116,809,730 S'647,900,506 

Population 3,500,11110 (Estimated). 

It will thus be seen from the statement of the highest authority 
that Steubenville's industrial growth has been enormous since 1900. 
Her commercial strength has given her a prominent place among the 
iron, steel and tin centers of the country which, together with its lo- 
cation in the heart of that area of high industrial activity known as 
the "Pittsburgh District," insures a future for her that will be mark- 
ed by steady, continuous progress. Signs of it are to be found in the 
new towns of Follansbee and Weirton, which are growing up around 
plants that have been established in the Steubenville District within a 
short time. 

Follansbee, West Virginia 

In 1902, Mr. D. J. Sinclair, the proprietor of the Union Deposit 
Hank, who was largely responsible for the establishment of the La 
Belle Iron Works and the Pope Tin Mill, brought about the location 
of a large tin mill by the Follansbee Brothers of Pittsburgh, on the 
other side of the river, opposite the lower end of the city. Here there 
was a naairal location for a town with railroad connections and river 
transportation right at hand. Around the mill a town of about 3,000 



has been built, and trolley service with Steubeuville csi.ilili-.lucl. To 
put through this trolley line Mr. Sinclair built a boulevard along the 
face of the bluff opposite the city, and secured the building ol 
bridge across the river to the foot of Market street at the cosl o 

Follansbee now has paved streets, electric lights, a fine watei 
works and a complete system of sewers. The well system for the 
water works gives water that is absolutely pure. The pumping sta- 
tion lias a capacity of 500,000 gallons a day, forcing the water up to a 
reservoir on the bluffs which lias a storage capacity of 1 gal- 

lons, giving a pressure for fire purposes of i.s.s pounds. Two school 
buildings have been erected at a total cost of $34,000 to take care oi 
tlie younger generations ol this growing town. The Citizens Bank oi 
Follansbee is capitalized at $25, < , its surplus and undivided profits 

amount to $4,000, while its total assets slioiv the following si, 

growth: June 30, 1907, £44,000; 1908, $64,000; [909, $90, ; [910, 

#120,000; December 30, [910, $150,000. Mr. II. C. Meyer is presi- 
dent ami C. B. Crawford the active cashier. 

The Follansbee Brothers Company 

The hammered open hearth tin plate made by the Follansbee 

Hros. Co. is the recognized standard for tin plate in this country. The 
mill was designed and is operated after the liest methods of the old 
Welsh manufacturers, coupled with American skill and science. All 
stages of the manufacture, from the raw material to the finished pro- 
duct, are conducted by the one mill, allowing control over every sep- 
arate process and insuring a product of absolutely determined quality. 
The open hearth process is used as giving the purest steel. When 
the raw materials have been reduced to a molten state in the furnaces 
samples are taken and tested ill the laboratory. The charge is always 
under control and is manipulated until the test shows it to have 
reached the desired analysis. It is then run off into a 35 ton ladle 
and poured into ingots by the "Bottom Pour," which prevents any 
slag from becoming mixed in the metal and insures uniform and 
solid ingots. 

A unique feature of the Follansbee product is that it is hammer- 
ed, not rolled according to the ordinary method. After reheating, 
the ingot is placed under an H ton drop hammer capable of striking 
an Soo ton blow, and is thus hammered from an ingot lo'.xio', at 
the bottom, S'.xS'. at the lop and 60 inches long, down to a billet 6 
inches square and 10 feel long. In this way such physical defects as 
air or blow holes are eliminated. The hammering also increases the 
ductility and toughness of the metal. The usual rolling process is 
not sufficient to drive out the air, hut simply changes the form of such 
defects. 

The billets are cut into convenient lengths and rolled into tin bars 
8 inches wide by 30 to 50 feet long. These are cut into lengths to 
correspond with the sized plates desired. They then go through llu 
processes of hot rolling, pickling, washing, annealing and tinning 

All these processes are under the supervision of trained superin- 
tendents, while the 1,200 men in the mill are regarded as the most 
skilled body of workmen among the tin workers. Wm. Kanlield, the 
general manager, was tin- pioneer tin maker in this country, and 
credit is due him for the enviable reputation of "Follansbee Tin." 
The annual production amounts to 41 1,000 tons of steel and 

tons of sheet iron and tin plate, having an aggregate value of $3, , 

000. The works com]. use ten hot mills. Large quantities of tin- 
plate are used for clocks, automobile hoods and bodies and othi rpro 
ducts that require the line finish that alone gives the high polish th.il 
is especially desired on such work. 



Another Follansbee industry is the S. Keighley Metal Ceiling & 
Manufacturing Co., whose product is metal ceilings, window frames, 

etc. About loo men are employed. It is conveniently located near 
the Follansbee P.ros. Co., the sheet steel of that mill being the raw 

material used for its work. 

The glass industry is represented in Follansbee by the Jefferson 
Class Company, which is incorporated with acapital of $100,000. 300 
men are employed in the manufacture of crystal and colored table- 
ware, novelties and lighting goods. 

The Sheet Metal Specially Company 

The Sheet Metal Specialty Company is an industry closely allied 
with the Follansbee Brothers Co.. Mr. John Follansbee being its presi- 
dent. The concern was established four years ago with a capitaliza- 
tion of $25,000, and has since been in continuous operation, its busi- 
ness having been so successful that the firm always has more orders 
than it can fill. Seventy-five men are employed in making up the 
sheet steel and tin plate of the Follansbee mill into stove and furnace 
pipe, elbows and all sorts of metal goods. 

Weirton, West Virginia 

A year ago the first families moved to Weirton, a new town on the 
West Virginia side of the Ohio river, five miles north of Steubenville, 
which was being built around another large tin mill whose location 
here was also clue largely to the ability and enterprise of Mr. Sinclair. 
Five months before engineers and carpenters had visited the hay 
field which covered the broad valley leading back from the river, and 
soon rows of cottages began tomark the familiar landscape, and across 
the valley the big mill of the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company, 
which was putting up the town, stretched out into a model plant. 
Today it is a town of 250 houses and 3,000 inhabitants, while houses 
are going up wholesale to relieve the congestion and keep pace with 
growth in population. The houses have from four to seven rooms, 
renting from Jio to #22.50, and are connected with 12 inch sewersand 
6 inch water mains. Even in the rush to simply house the people, 
essential features of every town were not forgotten so that three 
churches, a fire house and a school house, enlivened by 2N0 children, 
are already among the public buildings. The fire company comprises 
twenty-five volunteers and 2,000 feet of hose. In case of a fire the 
distributing tank on the bluffs, which supplies water to the houses, 
would be disconnected and the big pumps of the mill thrown in, 
which would give 150 pounds pressure on the fire hydrants. Weirton 
is a regular station on the Chester branch of the Pennsylvania rail- 
road and is served by eight trains a day, which brings it in closecom- 
munication with Steubenville. The river also offers a means of trans- 
portation which will be available for any other factories locating here 
as a free right of way is to be maintained from the river to the space 
reserved for them. The level valley offers such ideal sites for plants 
that in a few years the beauty of its fields will undoubtedly be re- 
placed by the stern creations of industry. 

The Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company is capitalized at #5,- 
000,000'. After working for two years on the plans for a new mill and 
town at Weirton, ground was broken in May, 1909. By February, 
1910, the mill was in operation. The plant is located between the 
Ohio River and the Chester branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, 
which affords it excellent transportation facilities, the railroad 
running its switches directly into the mill yard. The four main 



buildings, including the machine shop, are ol 6re proof construction 
throughout, being made of iron, brick and cement, and cover an area 
of thirty acres. The plant operates 20 hot mills which turn out 1,- 
500,000 boxes of tin plate a fear, or from 5,000 to6,ooo tuns a 1110 nth, 
making it "ml- of the largest tin plate plants in the United States. 
Both 3essemer and open hearth steel are user! in the production of 
Mark sheets, till and term- plates. l,6oo men are employed, to whom 
51 ,250,000 is paid annually . 

Close attention has been paid to the installation "i equipment 
which will provide for the most economical and systematic work 
which modern practices in manufacturing can surest. The ex- 
haust power of the plant is passed through condensers ami used to 
run the turbines which generate the electricity with which practically 
everything but the hot mills are run. In the same manner all the coal 
used in the plant is handle. 1 by two men. It is dumped into a crusher 
and hoisted by a continuous belt into coal bins 60 feet high from 
which it is distributed by chutes to automatic stokers and by a motor 
to the heating and annealing furnaces. Only two nun are employed 
in the boiler house which contains ten b ilers. All the ashes through- 
out the plant are never handled, but drop into a tunnel and are 
swept out by a continuous stream of water. 

The Company also owns and operates a large 12 mill plant at 
Clarksburg, West Virginia, but the general offices are located at Weir- 
ton. Branches are maintained in Pittsburgh, New York, St. Louis, 
San Francisco, Chicago and Portland, ( Iregon. While not as yet one 
year old, the Weirton plant is a splendid example of how many 
American industries today are planned and conducted on a large 
scale from the very beginning and are eminently successful. Another 
interesting feature is that the close relationship between the town and 
the mill has made possible a better acquaintance between employer 
and eniplovee than is usual in modern business life, and it is but 
another just tribute to Mr. E. T. Weir, the young president of the 
company, that he has been as successful in winning the respect and 
affection of his men as he has been in the conduct of the affairs of the 
company which he honors by his leadership. 

Mingo Junction, Ohio 

Steubenville's neighbor on the south is called from its old Indian 
name, "Mmgo Junction." One of the mills of the Carnegie Steel 
Company is the main industry, but some day in the near future Mingo 
will be the boom tow 11 of this region, its excellent transportation fa- 
cilities and manufacturing sites making it the most desirable location 
for plants anywhere in the Upper Ohio Valley. Four railroads meet 
here— the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and Cleveland 
and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania lines, and the Wheeling 
& I.ake Erie Railroad and Wabash Terminal divisions of the Wabash 
system. The river, of course, is also available. Over 400 acres of 
factory sites are to be had at a nominal price or will be given free to 
reliable concerns by the Board of Trade of Mingo and The Chamber 
of Commerce of Steubenville. At no other point in this region is 
there such a happy combination of manufacturing advantages as here 
at Mingo, and the linns that sei/.e the opportunity now open to them 
to locate here will find themselves ill possession of vital assets in the 
business world which will be of tremendous assistance in placing 
them at the top in their lines of industry. 

The population of Mingo is about 4,000. The town has a com- 
plete water works, paved streets ami electric lights. Beautiful public 



schools and one parochial school offer tlu best educational facilities 
possible to 700 school children. The social side of the town is well 
provided for by a number of flourishing fraternal organizations and 
five churches indicate the religious development of the community. 
The First National Hank is a thriving institution with $158,177.75 of 
resources. The trolley line of the Steubenville and Wheeling Trac- 
tion Company passes through Mingo, maintaining a half hour 
schedule with the town of Brilliant, a few miles below, and with 
Steubenville. 

Carnegie Steel Mill 

The steel mill of the Carnegie Steel Company located here is one 
of the largest in the Valley. Bessemer steel in the shape of slabs, 
blooms, merchant bars, billets, etc., is the main product of the plant, 
which comprises four blast furnaces, two Bessemer converters, two 
continuous mills and two blooming mills. Tower for the works is 
furnished by 63 boilers, with 19,650 horse power, and three genera- 
tors with 6,000 horse power in electric motors. 1,250,1 tons of ore, 

300,000 tons of limestone, and 600, tons of coke are used in turn- 
ing out an annual output of 600,000 tons of pig iron and 500,000 tons 
of slabs, blooms, skelp and other finished product. The progressive 
spirit of the Company is shown in the care it lakes to provide for the 
safety of its men, all possible precautions beingtaken and devices used 
to prevent accidents. At night the big convenors light up the whole 
valley with their flames and cast a lurid glow on the skies that is seen 
for miles around. 

Steubenville Welcomes You 

The storv of every section of this wonderful country of ours has 
its own points of interest. This variety gives it the freshness which 
makes it such a good place in which to live. Though surrounded by 
a beautiful country where one can enjoy the peace that is among the 
hills, the story of Steubenville is one of industry. The hum of her 
commerce fills the valley, the light of her fires at night tells of untir- 
ing toil, the water of the grand river beside her is cut by the fleets of 
trade, the throb of the iron steeds along her roads of steel speaks of 
her products sent to all parts of the world. This is her glory. Situ- 
ated in the midst of a great industrial region, midway between the 
great markets of the country, with raw material and cheap fuel right 
at hand and transportation facilities that are unexcelled, Steubenville 
is true to her name, "The Heart of the Workshop of the World." 
Though but few of us can enjoy the pleasure of traveling the several 
thousand miles around this earth, you may be sure that if ever the 
serious matters of business, the unforseen chances of life or this invi- 
tation brings vou within its borders, Steubenville welcomes you. 




O 



U 




m 




cm 




u. 



u 

— 




u 







u 




Some Views of the Business Section of Steubenv.lle. Ohio 




Union Cemetery. Steubenville, Ohio — Some Views of this Moat Beautiful Resting Place 




THE C 



ELEBRATED ART STUDIO OF FILSON & SON. STEUBENV1LLE. OHIO 



H 
m 

UJ 

-J 

< 

H 
3 <* 



Pi 

O 
< 

o 

u 

Q 

-worn 

5 $■$ 



Z 6 



£1{5 
< S 



H 
u 
w 

H 

X 
H 
X 



H 
05 
O 
Z 




u 




< 



I 

I 
- 



_ 
> 

z 
u 

ES 



O 

z 

- 
u 

U] 

z 
z 
o 
u 



z 




The National Exchange Bank, Steubenville. Ohio 




Interior of The National Exchange Bank. Steubenville. Ohio 







o 



a: 
O 




S3 H 
.- UJ 

Vi 

It 

en 
„• H 

is 

e 2 

Eo 

u u- 



pa 

rt 
►J 




u 



Q 



u 



o 



o 

u 

E 

o 




E 
< 



a 



u 




m 




The McGowan Brothers Company — ^Vholesale Grocers — SteubenvilU Store 




The McGowan Brcthers Company—Wholesale Croceri— Ubrichevjllc Store 




The Imperial Hotel. Carl Mildner, Proprietor. Steubenville. Ohio 




Baron von Steuben Monument. Washington. D. C. Recently Unveiled 
Compliment, of «h e STEUBENVILLE CERMANIA PRESS-Qudity Printing 




Union Deposit Bank, Steubenville, Ohi, 

D. J. SINCLAIR. Cashier 




< 
I 

u 

> 

>, 

e 

ri 

% 

u 




Interior of Peoples National Bank. Steubenville. Ohio 




Interior of Lambert Friedls Bank. Steubenville. Ohio 




Jolin Orr s Sons. Wholesale Grocers, Steubenville. Ohio 




W. S. Walker, Wholesale Notions, Steubenville, Ohio 




Stanton Park, the Popular Amusement Resort. Steubenville. Ohio 




. 



W». A. Forstroma Res.dence The Rel.anee Eng.ne House Holy Nam. : Parish Houae 

Stone and Cement Work Done by The Steubenville Stone Company. Stcubcnvillc. Oh.o 



n 0. 



(n* 






i ^ I 


P 


1 L 


► -j 




1 t j j 




r| 6 


4 


4 _ 







The Denver Studio-Irwin & Martin. Proprietors-Steubenville. Ohio 




Interior of J. C. Copes Drug Store. Steubenville 



Ohi 




The Steubenville Gazette Company 
Publishers of the Daily and Weekly Gazette 




u 



u 




o S 



E 

o 
U 



CQ 



IE 




CJ 



I 

M 

« 
u 



2 



> 




E 
o 
O 




Gill Hospital — Hamline Church — Sinclair Garage and Bridges 
Built by Floto Brothers Construction Company, Steubenville, Ohio, Contractors and Builders 

of Stone and Concrete Work 

The stone and concrete work of the Herald-Star and LaBelle Office Buildings, the Grand View Residence of Geo. N. Henr; 

and bridges shown in Union Cemetery, on other pages of this Souvenir, are products of this Company 




Morelli & Company, Foreign Bankers, Steamship Agents and Real Estate Dealers, Steubenville, Ohio 




R. J. Irwin, Founder and Machinist. 618 Adams Street, Steubenville. Ohio 




■I th 




py 



The Weirton Pharmacy 
Weirton. W. Va. 



L. Lowmiller, General Merchandife 
Weirton. W. Va. 




Great Business Firms Employ Our Graduates 




EDW. McKlNLEY, Jr. 

."Bookkeeper H. H. Smith & 

Co., Toronto, Ohio 



Hundreds of great business firms employing thousands 
of men and women are looking to this College every year 
for new blood. Bright, energetic young people who un- 
derstand Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Corres- 
pondence and Business Methods are wanted in business, 
and all over this section of the country business men are 
looking to the Steubenville Business College for such 
assistants. 

The demand for our graduates by the Manufacturing, 
Mercantile, Banking, Insurance and Railway Companies 
and Law Offices is far greater than we can supply. While 
our attendance has more than doubled during the last few 
years, the increased demand for our graduates has been 
even greater. 




BE R NICE CAMPBELL 

Steno. & Sec., Steuh. Bus. 
College, Steubenville, Ohio 



The Steubenville B 



usiness 



Coll 



ege 



will prepare you for such a position—give you a better 
training for the time and money expended than other 
schools, and when you are thoroughly qualified, will place 
you with one of the hundreds of successful business houses 
that look to us constantly for well trained office help. 

For further information see our handsome 40- page 
catalog. Write, phone or call today. 



J. T. THOMPSON, Principal. 




A GROUP OF BOOKKEEPERS, SUMMER TERM-1910 
STEUBENVILLE BUSINESS COLLEGE 




ReORTUNITIES 



For Young Men and Women 



& 



C. EARL QUIMBY 

Bookkeeper 

Penn. Railroad Co. 

Pittsburg, Pa. 




MINNIE COX 

Stenographer 

Chicago Wall 'Paper Co. 

Steubenville. Obio 




Never before was there such a demand for young 
men and women bookkeepers, stenographers, private 
secretaries, commercial teachers, superintendents and 
office assistants. Such positions offer you better salary 
and greater opportunities than any other field you can 
possibly enter. 

We have trained hundreds of young men and wo- 
men for just such positions and secured places for 
them, too-- situations that pay $500 to $251)0 a year. 
Look around you and you will see our graduates and 
former students filling fine positions all over this entire 
country. 

Points for You to Consider 

Practical and superior courses of instruction. 

A strong faculty of expert instructors. 

The furniture, typewriters and office appliances 
among the best in this country. 

Large, commodious, well-lighted, comfortable rooms. 

Strong discipline, kind, courteous, fair treatment for 
all. 

Tuition rates very reasonable. Day and evening ses- 
sions. 

Our new handsome 40-page catalog tells you all about 
our school and the success of its many graduates. 

Write, phone or call for a free copy today. 




COLLEGE OFFICE. (From Photograph t 

STEUBENVILLE BUSINESS COLLEGE 




<S.C. ''■■ . 



The Johnston-Carter Company, Hardware and Supplies, Follanshtv, W. Va. 




The Dougherty Block. Corner Third and Market Streets. Steuhenville. Ohio 




The Steuhenville Pure Milk Company. Wholesale and Retail. Pasteurized Milk and Cream 

Steuhenville. Ohio 




A Group of Steubenville's Many Handsome Church Edific 




Steubenville Transfer and Storage Co. 
J. C. Alexander, Mgr. 

171-173 South Fourth Street. Steubenville. Ohio 
Our Ability is Your Security 




B 
o 
U 




Views along the Ohio Valley Scenic Route 







Views along the Ohio Valley Scenic Route 




b 



u 




The H. C. Cook Company 

Printer.. Blank Book Manufacturers. Book Binders. Stationers and Office Supplies 

Steubenville, Ohio 



[PJAI 



STEWART PIANO CO.| 
PIANOS,PLAYER-PIANOS.ORGANSl 



j c 



EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC 



I r 




"WMto«H»M.H 



Stewart Piano Company. 526 Market Street, Steubenville, Ohio 
This Building was the Birthplace of Edwin M. Stanton 




Stewart Piano Co. 

526 Market Street STEUBENV1LLE, OHIO 

'nimtg iMari)ttt?B (Organs 





A GROUP OF STEUBENV1LLE RESIDENCES 
D. J. Sinclair Justin A. Moore E. M. Fisher Franklin Dougherty 




Commercial National Bank, Steubenville, Ohio 



yB^H^^I ^^^fefiflHil^HKH^^I 






- 


, 




wtaaMMB 


PHfVf 








4 3 ' 


i t ii'i 


*' 






IwljW 






wnm+m 


k M ± l 


C& 


■{*&**? -- ' 




k, 1 J 


t«t 




- 


v^ ■*'- 




1 • 











Mayor's Office, Steubenville. Ohio 
MARTIN J. LARK1N. Chief of Police THOMAS W. PORTER. Mayor 



■ 




Grandview Residence of Geo. N. Henry 




A Steubenville Residence Street 



EACH 




DAY 



Find 



s more 



People using the 
Butte Laundry 
Service 




Merit alone has ex- 
tended it from one city 
to five counties 

The same service that 
pleases so many others 
will please you— in fad, 
real satisfying laundry 
service will begin for you 
when you phone 632 
for 



BUTTES 



101 




n 







D 

1 



i 







KELLY & WESTMYER 




Manufacturers 


of SOFT DRINKS. 


Bottled and Barrele 


d CIDER a 






Specialty. Cherry 


Wine in Kegs. 






130 North 


Court Street 


Steubenvllle 


Ohio 






Telephones: National 155, Bell 176 





E. 


M. GEARY'S 


Star 


Laundry 




Dry Cleaning 




Both Phones 98 


STEUBENV1LLE OHIO 



The Steubenvllle 

Produce Co. 

Wholesale Bananas and Oranges 
and all Citrus and Deciduous 
Fruits, Potatoes, Cabbage, all 
kinds of Vegetables and Nuts 
Hay, Grain, Chop, Bran and 

Middlings 

1 16 N. THIRD ST., STEUBENVILLE, OHIO 



DR. J. F. BUMPUS 



Osteopath 



408 Market Street 



Steubenville, Ohio 



TO THE 

SUGAR BOWL 

For everything Pure 
and Sweet 

Also the famous Velvet Ice 
Cream 

J. K. and J. S. MANOS. Proprietors 

335 Market St., Steubenville, O. 



P. F. COE 
Funeral Director 

Up-to-Date Service 
and Equipment . . 

122 and 124 North Fifth Street 

Steubenville, Ohio 

Both Phones 



General Insurance 



Real Estat 



John G. Wanenmacher 



Fire, Accident and Life 
Insurance 



132 North Third Street 
Steubenville, O. 



Robert J. Peterson 
ARCHITECT 

The handsome new Theatre 
and newspaper building of the 
Herald-Star, shown on another 
page, was designed by and con- 
structed under the supervision 
of Robert J. Peterson. 

511 NATIONAL EXCHANGE 
BANK BUILDING 



ESTABLISHED 1888 



T. R. Barclay 
REAL ESTATE 

Real Estate Bought 
and Sold on 

REASONABLE TERMS 
109-111 North Fourth Street 



Bell Phone No. 80 Nat'l Phone No. 80 

ESTABLISHED IN 1857 

The Steubenville 

Coal & Mining Co. 

Miners of Coal 

And Manufacturers of 

COKE 

121 Liberty St. STEUBENVILLE. OHIO 



Citizens Bank 

of follansbee 

C. B. CRAWFORD, Cashier 

FOLLANSBEE 
WEST VIRGINIA 



The Ohio Planter and Supply Co. 

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS 

BUILDERS SUPPLIES 



BOTH PHONES 58 

( FIRE 
BRICK' FACE 



PAVING 
BUILDING BLOCKS 



■=^r 



CEMENT 



PORTLAND 
KEANES 



CORNER BEAD 
DRAIN TILE 

FLUE LINING 

GRATE TILE 



LIME 



AGRICULTURAL 
HYDRATED 

MASONS 
LUMP 



We 

Want 

Your 

Orders 

for 



STEUBENVILLE. OHIO 

METAL LATH 

MORTAR COLOR 
PAPER 
( SLATE 
SEWER PIPE 



ROOFING 



WALL 



BOARD 
COPING 
TIES 
PLASTER 



PITTSBURG 
COAL 

Write Us for Prices 



Wheeling Traction 
C ompany 



THE WHEELING TRACTION COMPANY'S 
STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM GIVES EX- 
CELLENT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES 
=FROM= 

STEUBENVILLE 

TO BRILLIANT, Q. 

OPPOSITE WELLSBURG, WEST VA. 

And From 

Shadyside to Rayland, O* 

WITH A WESTERN BRANCH TO BARTON 
On the West Virginia side or the Ohio from 

\VellsDurg to Mounasville 

Connecting -with the Tn-State Traction Com- 
pany s lines from Wellsburg to Steubenville, and 
with the Ohio Valley Scenic Route to East 
Liverpool, Rochester ana Northern Ohio Points 

PACKAGE 8 EXPRESS SERVICE 

TO ALL POINTS ON THE LINE 




E. M. FISHER 

Proprietor of 

Steubenville's Popular 
Meat Market 

The most sanitary market in the Ohio 
Valley--mechanical refrigeration 

Both phones 
Corner of Fourth and Adams Streets 

Steubenville, Ohio 



We will Sell, Buy or Exchange your 
Property Home and Bus- 
iness Sites 




Real Estate and 

Insurance Broker 

Rents Collected 
Loans Negotiated 

Manufacturing Sites for Sale 

414 MARKET ST. 

STEUBENVILLE, - OHIO 

If it is Insurance' or Real Estate 
WE HAVE IT 



ROBERT R COX 

PRACTICAL 

Plumber, Gas and 

Steam Fitter 




Estimates Furnished 

Sole Agency The Domestic 
Sewing Machine 

Both Phones 

141 South Fifth Street 
Steubenville Ohio 



Put Your Duds 
In Our Suds 



^ 



^%. 

^ 



A^> 



■^ 



•^ 



M 



%? 



THE 



s 



teubenville 



Lap n dry C® 



The Electric Studio 

327 Market Street, Near Court House 

Is of thirty'Seven years' standing 
in the one location. The oldest 
photograph gallery in Steubenville 

MILLER & SON 

Are the Present Owners 

Work of All Kinds Promptly Attended To 

AND ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION 

GUARA NTEED 

Bell Phone 338-R Give Us a Call 



The Miners S Mechanics Bank 

104 SOUTH FOURTH ST. 

'"""'"steubenville, * OHIO^'^' 

OFFICERS 

DAVID McGOWAN, President W. S. WALKEK, Vice President 

JOHN POTTER, Secretary and Treasurer 

J. A. KITHCART, Solicitor 

DIRECTORS 

A. M HELMS DAVID McGOWAN W. S. WALKER JOHN POTTER 

JOHN WANENMACHER J. A. KITHCART JOHN BENTZ 

T. fV BARCLAY WINFIELD SCOTT ALFRED DAY 

GEORGE S. HAWKINS 

Over one-half million dollars has been paid out in interest to depositors since the bank was 
established. 

Deposits of one dollar upward received. Interest allowed on time deposits. 



Arrlirr fKarhlf auii 
flkanitf Winks 




Established 1870 

Where Quality Counts. Estimates and 
Information on 

Monumental and 

Cemetery Work 

CHEERFULLY GIVEN 

Office. Bell Phone 433-J 

Res.. Bell Phone 440- J 

National Phone 591-M 

719 Market St., STEUBENVILLE, OHIO 



The Value Received 

More than Equals the Higher Cost 



Z 



z 

-^ 

U 
z 

O 




/ 



Q 



H 

rr 
z 



A Flour of Quality. Better than 
the Best 



IHSTWIHlTc >RS 



fHosel-Jolittsmt (Eo. 

WHOLESALE GROCERS 

Steubenville Ohk 




"For over Thirtj Years the Faithful Government Lighthouse Keeper at Brown's Island" 

A. J. McCARTY 
BfBtgttfr an* Sutforr of Artisttr (Eemrtrru JMwtwiriala 

S. EIGHTH STREET MONUMENTS STEUBENVLLE. OH.O 



108 



assess:©: 






S>, O. 



•^ O ^_ 










U4 

Si 

go 

e 

to 



q 

Q 






gg jCnugrfi of 
(&aob printing 



' I "HIS Souvenir Book is a producl of the 
•*■ Germania Press, Court street, opposite 
Court House, Steubenville, Ohio. All and 
every photograph shown herein were print- 
ed in our pressroom, and we would highly 
appreciate it if you should give us a chance 
to show you that we can turn out the finest 
class of printing at a very moderate price, 
in fact in many instances at a lower price 
than you often pay for inferior work. 

The Steubenville Germania Press has 
built up its reputation on promptness and 
quality. We use the besl material and 
combine the characteristics of two conti- 
nents---American skill and German thor- 
oughness—in the production of our work. 

The fact that we started in business 13 
years ago with one job press and kicked 
it with our feet for two years, and further, the 
fact that we have today the best equipped 
printing establishment in the city of Steu- 
benville, turning out the acknowledged 
best printing, will explain to you every- 
thing more and better than it could be 
done in any other way. 

One thing we would respectfully men- 
tion here. We do not employ solicitors; 
we make no promises we cannot keep; 
instead we attend personally to every job 
entrusted to us, large or small, in order 
that our customers get justice in every 
respetfl. 

You are invited to convince yourself. 



<5li? j^tntbrmtiUr 
(gmttania ^rrss 



WAR 13 19" 




ER marvelous increases in popula- 
tion and industry in the last de- 
cade qualifies Steubenville as the 
place for you to live and prosper. The 
Chamber of Commerce invites a careful and 
thorough investigation of the many advantages 
which Steubenville possesses 

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

A. D. MACMlLLAN - Secretary 



H 162 74 - I 




' 0> ^ 0^ 






>>•*. 

** %■ 






^o< y o^ *^o« W 









°o 









% 6 









% 













^ 






^ 















S - ^ <-> 



■ 






y , •> * ». *> v % 


















° 0j 



v ,.., * 















*>U V* 



^ 



■J* ^n 






1 A° %■ A^ <• *'••'' A^ °< A^ ' *° 

j • * • • . *-*. • « ^-S. j *■ * • • . 



/^ 



N MANPHCQTrD .f 



^ I • 4 o 

^^ N MANrwFQTCD J 



